Gendering Military Sacrifice
A Feminist Comparative Analysis
Cecilia Åse editor Maria Wendt editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:12th Feb '19
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This book explores the intersection of gender and military sacrifice, arguing for a feminist perspective to understand honourable death in warfare.
The book Gendering Military Sacrifice provides a critical feminist analysis of the concept of military sacrifice, emphasizing the significance of incorporating a gender perspective when discussing honourable death. It delves into the traditional notions surrounding sacrifice in warfare, particularly how these ideas are often intertwined with masculinised expectations of dying for one's country, including the protection of women and children. By scrutinizing these beliefs, the authors challenge and renegotiate the narrative surrounding military sacrifice in contemporary security discourses.
Through original empirical research conducted across six European countries, Gendering Military Sacrifice highlights how gendered and nationalistic representations shape current understandings of sacrifice and legitimize military violence. The authors argue that to truly grasp and contest the notion of honourable military death, a gender perspective is essential. They utilize a diverse array of materials, such as public debates, rituals, monuments, and artwork, to critically analyze the justifications presented for soldiers' deaths during the Afghanistan war from 2002 to 2014, thereby questioning the traditional frameworks of methodological nationalism.
This innovative volume offers a feminist comparative methodology that fosters cross-country and transdisciplinary analysis. It generates fresh insights into how the idealization and political contestation of military violence are deeply influenced by gendered national narratives. Gendering Military Sacrifice is a valuable resource for students and scholars in gender studies, critical military studies, security studies, and International Relations.
"Gendering Military Sacrifice provides rigorous and analytically rich insights into all the work that goes into making the death of soldiers politically intelligible and meaningful. Deftly weaving together practices of meaning making around military sacrifice, this volume has much to tell readers about the specific narratives and practices deployed in different European countries and how military sacrifice can be read as an increasingly globalised phenomenon."-- Victoria Basham, Cardiff University, UK
"This exciting volume offers original research regarding the meaning assigned to war deaths. The comparative analysis brings forth silences and absences within and across national divides in ways hardly ever done before, and opens windows to new understandings of contemporary war-making. For those among us looking for alternative voices in these times of war and threats of war, this book is an inspiration."-- Berit von der Lippe, Norwegian Business School, Norway
"Cecilia Åse, Maria Wendt and their smart co-authors have pulled back the curtain on the costs of the long Afghanistan war. They shine a feminist spotlight on the gendered rituals governments craft to justify their failed militarized policies."-- Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy
"Gendering Military Sacrifice provides rigorous and analytically rich insights into all the work that goes into making the death of soldiers politically intelligible and meaningful. Deftly weaving together practices of meaning making around military sacrifice, this volume has much to tell readers about the specific narratives and practices deployed in different European countries and how military sacrifice can be read as an increasingly globalised phenomenon."-- Victoria Basham, Cardiff University, UK
"This exciting volume offers original research regarding the meaning assigned to war deaths. The comparative analysis brings forth silences and absences within and across national divides in ways hardly ever done before, and opens windows to new understandings of contemporary war-making. For those among us looking for alternative voices in these times of war and threats of war, this book is an inspiration."-- Berit von der Lippe, Norwegian Business School, Norway
"Cecilia Åse, Maria Wendt and their smart co-authors have pulled back the curtain on the costs of the long Afghanistan war. They shine a feminist spotlight on the gendered rituals governments craft to justify their failed militarized policies."-- Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy
"There are studies on the military as a gendered institution, and there are studies on how societies commemorate their dead soldiers. This volume combines these perspectives in an original and very stimulating way. In analysing how ISAF casualties were commemorated and legitimated, the authors develop a concise and critical assessment of contemporary wars and national constructions of heroes, victims and sacrifices."-- Nina Leonhard, Bundeswehr Center of Military History and Social Sciences, Germany
ISBN: 9781138329850
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
206 pages